> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Stephen Frost wrote:> > > That's a good reason for not doing it, if it hogs up alot of> > kernel memory. I don't have a clue how it's implemented, but I wouldn't> > think it would be that bad... Perhaps a clue from how SUN does it, things> > in /dev only change when you boot, and it's just stored on a real filesystem,> > that would take much less memory I would think.> > Do we have a tool such as HP's ioscan? If not, there is NO way to do ALL> devices at boot automagically that I know of. Hot pluggable devices still> are not covered.

Have a base-set on first boot, then after the kernel has foundeverything run a script that goes through and adds on to the base-setfrom what is found by the kernel. You could do that after modules areloaded even.

> > Perhaps also have the change capability as a module for those who> > wish to be able to change it on the fly, and for all others just have it> > done either on request or during boot.> > Need something along the lines of ioscan, and it would have to know about> all devices. ALSO, you would have to update the proggie whenever new> devices are supported. This is kinda a hack compared to DEVFS.

Well, at least on the i386 arch I don't believe major devices couldbe added while the system is running, I was thinking more along the lines ofscsi drives which are hot-swappable and such.